A Letter From Governor Crist To Secretary Gary Locke

I recently came upon a letter from Charlie Crist to Gary Locke. He had written a letter on behalf of the fishing industries and other businesses in Florida affected by the deep horizon oil spill in the Gulf. He asks that Secretary Locke make a determination of a commercial fishery failure under the provisions of section 312(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. He writes that through misinformation of the spill has affected tourism and the seafood consumption in a whole. "It is by a mistaken impression from the news that the entire Gulf has been tainted," he states. He asks for help as we try to help preserve the fishing industry as whole and and to keep more peoples jobs from being lost.